Portrait of Muhammad bin Fadil ... Frame:none

Portrait of Muhammad bin Fadil ... Frame:nonePortrait of Muhammad bin Fadil, a falconer in Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party, riding a camel with a peregrine in Al Khatam sands near Al Ain. Muhammad bin Fadil sits astride his standing camel, which faces towards the near right foreground, its head looking up into the sky. Muhammad bin Fadil's ghutra (headscarf) is blown back behind his shoulders by the wind and he holds a camel stick up in the air with one hand. A hooded peregrine

while further behind two camels and a second member of the party wait

sitting in Jabal Qara

a cattle herder

the people of the pueblo 'are contemplating the abandonment of their present village on account of the enormous sand-drifts which threaten to envelope it

Portrait of an elderly man of the Bayt Kathir Bedouin at Qafa well in Wadi 'Aydim

while the two Harasis tribesmen stand on either side of him

A cluster of multi-storeyed buildings made from rammed earth sit in the distance

View of a crowd of people of the Al bu Muhammad tribe

In the foreground falconer wearing a light coloured thobe (long shirt) topped with a cartridge belt and khanjar (dagger) stands in a patch of bare sand

A large group of Bedouin men sit in a circle in front of a cave in a rock hillside

View of the skyline of Jeddah

Beyond the fort one and two storey buildings